Sunday 21 April 2024

Sunday 21st April 2024

Seisdon village

2x Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail over, (GCl)

Belvide Resv

2x Whimbrel north shore, 4x Swift, 

Branston GPs

2x Swift, (AM)  -  4x Little Egret, Mandarin, 24x Shelduck, Scaup(m), Goldeneye, 3x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, House Martin, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Reed Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Redpoll, (DSc)

Pool Hall

12x Wheatear in ploughed fields below Pool Hall, (GCl)

Burslem Park

7x Goosander, (JBr)

Dingle Lane (near Rudyard)

Greenfield farm - Redstart, 6x Tree Pipit, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Drake Garganey still from the lookout, (JAl)  -  Whimbrel on JW north until 19:45 then flew north, Garganey, 18x Gadwall, 6x Shelduck, 2x Redshank, Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, LRP, Cuckoo, Gropper, 3x Reed Warbler, 8x Sedge Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret,  (BHa)

Radford Meadows Stafford

18x Little Egret, 30x Shelduck, 2x Wigeon, 14x Gadwall, 2x Goosander, 10x Shoveler, 3x LRP, 3x White Wagtail, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

4x Oystercatcher, Yellow Wagtails, Wheatear, 13x Shelduck, (MJa)

Tittesworth Water

Osprey thru at 11:40, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, House Martin, Pied Flycatcher, Goosander, (JOa, LH, KH)

Swallow Moss

Redstart, (JOa)

Otherton

Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, nearby a Wheatear along Mansty Lane, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 5x LR Plover, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Red Kite, 3x Little Egret, (SCo)  -  also reports of Whinchat, 2x Med Gull and 2x Common Tern, 

Tucklesholme

Common Tern 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Sedge Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, 2x Blackcap, 4x Shelduck, 8x GC Grebe, Little Egret, (JDr)

Berryhill

Female Ring Ouzel on north side of the Palletstacks track, 7x Wheatear, (JKe, MKe)  

Baldwins Gate

Red Kite, (RWh)

Silverdale CP

3x Grasshopper Warbler, (TR

Sideway

Cetti's Warbler to 20:40 still, (LSt)